Nourah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- NOO-ra
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,206 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #7,489 for girls
Nourah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “light”. In 2025 it ranked 2,206th for girls in the UK (13 babies) and 7,489th for girls in the US (14 babies).
What does Nourah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Noura, itself a spelling of Nura
“light”
From the Arabic nur, 'light', the word behind Noor and Nour.
Meaning borrowed from Noura.
Is Nourah a girl's or a boy's name?
Nourah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 13 girls in the UK and 14 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Nourah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,206th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 13 about 1 in 21,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 193% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 13 girls in the UK were named Nourah, making it the 2,206th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,110th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 18 girls.
Half of all the girls named Nourah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2019 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 212 girls in the UK were given Nourah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #249, up from #2,206 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 2,137th in England and Wales.
Nourah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #2,206 |
| 2024 | 18 | #1,726 |
| 2023 | 13 | #2,185 |
| 2022 | 8 | #3,050 |
| 2021 | 10 | #2,658 |
| 2020 | 5 | #4,110 |
| 2019 | 7 | #3,340 |
| 2018 | 3 | #5,896 |
| 2017 | 8 | #3,102 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,951 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 1 | #7,881 |
How popular is Nourah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 7,489th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 14 about 1 in 110,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 14 girls in the US were named Nourah, making it the 7,489th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. It first appears in the records in 2004.
It has been given to more girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had the most girls named Nourah of any year since it first appeared, in 2004.
Half of all the girls named Nourah in the US since 1880 were born between 2017 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 212 girls in the US were given Nourah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,020, up from #7,489 for this spelling alone.
Nourah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,489 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,551 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,456 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,246 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,730 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,459 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,611 |
| 2016 | 7 | #12,871 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,172 |
Names like Nourah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Nusaybah, Ayah, Safa, Zainab, Hiba, Hafsa, Izzah, Rahma, Ruqayyah, Noorah, Niyyah, Aafiyah
Other spellings of Nourah
Names related to Nourah
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Nourah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/nourah, updated 20 October 2026.